In which I declare myself a fandom heretic

[moonspinner]

After the euphoria of Atla's Book 3 (Fire) wore off, I realized that I had some issues with it. And some is an understatement. It took me a while (another understatement) to put them together with any degree of coherency. I don't think I succeeded. But here they are, at last, to all intents and cathartic purposes.

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[moonspinner]

As a Kataang shipper, I should be happy with the way the story ended, ship-wise but I'd like to think I expect more from a story than just seeing my preferred people sucking face at the end. A little coherency... a little consistency... I'm not asking for much. Heck, just keeping the S2-ending status quo between K/A instead of injecting a lot of artificial, pseudo-realistic, un-resolved no-matter-how-you-squint-to-see-it-as-'growth' angst between them. As for Zuko/Mai, I've said it before and I'll say it again but tying an erstwhile strong woman's redemption to her boyfriend - after taking pains to not tie it to her family - is not pro-feminist.

Unfortunately in this fandom, it's commonplace to get a lot of flak for saying *anything* that could be remotely construed as "attacking the creators", when in fact you're just expressing your inability to suspend disbelief over certain things that happened.

Yes, I think so. It's a creepy parallel with the way the anti-whitewashing crowd was shouted down when the movie casting was first released.